A week where all the activities feel like fall, but Louisiana weather never feels like fall. It's cooled down, but it definitely isn't in the range that has me jumping for joy.
Elliot had his book character pumpkin project this week and we decorated for the book "There Was a Black Hole Who Swallowed the Universe." It looks less insane in photos than it does in real life.
The neighbors chickens escaped yesterday and caused some excitement on our end as Jeremy locked up the dogs and captured it. Poor girl didn't realize what she was signing up for when she jumped the fence.
Post homecoming parade (which I hope someone got a photo or video of us running down the road like lunatics) the kids pulled the magnetic tiles as a great way to play in such a way as to delay bedtime. Peep Elliot still wearing the beads they threw at the parade, which he thinks are real gold.
Also, I think this was all a cross between homecoming parade tired mixed with trying to pack to go to Natchez tired - but let me leave for work a second past the time I'm supposed to and I'm catching a bridge. I managed to walk into my classroom literally one minute before the kids.
In the same thread of thinking - being tried and making an extra coffee works great while teaching... it does not work great while progress monitoring oral reading fluency. This was not the time to sit still lol!
It's homecoming at the kids school this week, that school is also tied to our church, which means we get rolled. The perks of being married to the youth pastor, yearly toilet paper before my kids even hit middle school lol! The boys get such a kick out of it, on the second night they went outside to surprise the girls that were rolling and ended up helping roll their own house.
The fun promptly ended on the second day after school of toilet paper pick up. Harry declared this to be rude. Honestly, they're old enough to earn their keep.
I snapped a quick picture of the buttons I had one of my parents make my own children's teachers this year for homecoming. It's from Les Vues Designs on Facebook. After I got a really cute one for the school I teach at, I had to have some made for the kids school. I just wish I had also gotten one for myself.
